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INDUSTRY INSIGHT
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
INSIDE
FEATURES
16 Large, expensive and, after five years, usually trash
When a still-powerful agency supercomputer is past its prime, finding a new home for the system is rarely simple
BY SUZETTE LOHMEYER
24 Can software quality tools shrink technical debt?
IT and software managers have begun experimenting with ways to identify and minimize less-than-optimal coding to avoid expensive fixes down the road
BY PAUL McCLOSKEY
26 IT powers business transformation
Agencies are using IT service management to replace inefficient
workflows of all sorts — including help-desk requests, onboarding employees and managing helicopter fleets
BY PAUL McCLOSKEY
CASE STUDIES
29 Bringing super power to the desktop
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges project gives seamless desktop access to high-performance computing
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
30 Secret and unclassified resources on one PC The FBI has come up with a way to enable users to securely access different environments without switching computers
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
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BRIEFING
8 Iowa fights snow with data
9 Unmasking malware coders, and 3-D scans from smartphones
10 Hooking up with Tinder to encourage organ donations
COMMENTARY
11 CYBEREYE
Are we headed for
a Heartbleed redux with Secure Shell?
13 EMERGING TECH NASA and Esri speed delivery of cloud-based imagery data
14 INDUSTRY INSIGHT
4 challenges to realistic records management
WISH LIST
34 Tech that we hope hits the public sector
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